Sept. 12

Introduction
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Bibliometrics
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Citation analysis

Budd, John M. (2001). Journals and the Shaping of Disciplinary Knowledge, 67th IFLA Council and General Conference, August 16-25. Available Online.

Garfield, Eugene (1998). The Use of Journal Impact Factors and Citation Analysis for Evaluation of Science. presented At Cell Separation, Hematology and Journal Citation Analysis Mini Symposium in tribute to Arne Boyum Rikshospitalet, Oslo April 17, 1998 Available Online

Garfield, Eugene (1964). Can Citation Indexing Be Automated? Mary Elizabeth Stevens, Vincent E. Giuliano, and Laurence B. Helprin, eds. Statistical Association Methods for Mechanized Documentation, Symposium Proceedings. Available Online

Small, Henry G. : Cited document as concept symbols. Social Studies of Science 8(3):327-340. (Available through Rutgers library)

Reviews/critical articles for the book presentation due

sign up for the book presentation starts

Visualizing literature
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Wilson, Patrick (1995). Unused relevant information in research and development. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 46(1). pp. 45-51. (Available through Rutgers library)

McCain, W. Katherine (1986). The paper trails of scholarship: mapping the literature of genetics. Library Quarterly, 56: 258-271. Available Online

White, Howard D. and Katherine W. McCain: Visualizing a discipline: an author co-citation analysis of information science, 1972-1995. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(4): 327-355. (Available through Rutgers library)

Bates, M. J. (2002). Speculations on browsing, directed searching, and linking in relation to the Bradford distribution. In Bruce, H., R. Fidel, P. Ingwersen, & P. Vakkari (Eds.) Emerging Frameworks and Methods: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS 4), July 21-25, Seattle, WA. Libraries Unlimited, Greenwood Village, 137-149. Available Online

Scholarly communication

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Guedon, Jean-Claude (2001) In Oldenburg's Long Shadow : Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing. In Proceedings Creating the Digital Future : Association of Research Libraries 138th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario (Canada). Available Online

Kling, R., & McKim, G. (1999). Scholarly Communication and the Continuum of Electronic Publishing. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50 (10), 890-906. (through Rutgers library)

Fry, Jenny (in press). Scholarly research and information practices: a domain analytic approach. Information Prcessing and Management, 42(1).pp.299-316 (through Rutgers Library).

Domain analysis and interdisciplinary research

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Birger Hjorland and Hanne Albrechtsen. (1995). Toward a new horizon in information science: Domain-analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 46(6):400-425. (Available through Rutgers library)

Palmer, Carole L. and Neumann, Laura. (2002). "The Information Work of Interdisciplinary Humanities Scholars: Exploration and Translation." Library Quarterly 72 (January): 85-117. (through Rutgers library)

Zerubavel, E. (1995). The rigid, the fuzzy, and the flexible: notes on the mental sculpting of academic identity. Social Research, 62, 1093-1107. (Available through Rutgers library)

Karamuftuoglu, M. (1998). Collaborative information retrieval: toward a social informatics view of IR interaction. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49 (12):1070-1080. (Available through Rutgers library). (*optional)

domain analysis -continured

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Simmons, Michelle Holschuh (2005). Librarians as disciplinary discourse mediators: using genre theory to move toward critical information literacy. Libraries and Academy 5.3, 297-311. (through Rutgers Library)

Carole L. Palmer (2005). Scholary work and the shaping of digital access. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56 (11), 1140-1153. (through Rutgers Library)

Hjorland, Birger. (1997). Information Seeking and Subject Representation: An Activity-Theoretical Approach to Information Science. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pr. (New Directions in Information Management, no. 34): Ch 6: Science, Discipline, and Subject Field as a Framework for Information Seeking.pp. 135-157.

Oct. 24

No class

Oct. 31

Theories of Concept and Categorization

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Rosch, Eleanor (1988). Principle of categorization. In Collins, Allan & Edward E. Smith (Eds.). Readings in Cognitive Science, a Perspective from Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. San Mateo, California, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, pp 312-322. Available Online

William Connolly, Intro + Ch. 1: Essentially contested concepts in politics

Kwasnik, B. H. (1999). The role of classification in knowledge representation and discovery. Library Trends 48(1), 22-47.
(Available through Rutgers Library)

Nov. 7

Scientific Revolution

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Kuhn, Thomas (1970). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago. Ch. 2: The Route to Normal Science

Patrick Wilson: Ch. 6: Information retrieval and cognitive authority.pp. 165-198. From Second-Hand Knowledge : An Inquiry into Cognitive Authority

Small, H. (2003). Paradigms, citations, and maps of science: A personal history. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(5), 394 - 399.

Wilson, Patrick (1983). Second-Hand Knowledge : An Inquiry into Cognitive Authority (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science). Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press.

Nov. 14

Science War

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Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, Ch1

Giere, Ronald N. (forthcoming). Scientific Perspectives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006, Ch1 Available Online

Ian Hacking, Ch. 5: Kind-making: the case of child abuse

Presentation
Hacking, Ian (1999). The Social Construction of What?. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press.

Theory and practice of classification

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Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star (1999). Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press.
Intro + Ch. 1; pp.1-50

Douglas, Mary (1986). Ch1. 9-19, Ch4. 45-53.

Presentation
Douglas, Mary. (1986). How Institutions Think. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.

Presentation
Kuhn, Thomas (1970). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1970, 2nd edition, with postscript).

Information infrastructure

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Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star (1999). Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press.
Ch.2,3

Burke, Peter (2000). A Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press
Ch. 5: Classifiying Knowledge

Presentation
Lave, J., & Wenger, E. (1990). Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Working knowledge and the flow of information

Bowker & Star: Part IV (Ch.9&10), p.283-326.

Brown, John Seely and Paul Duguid (1996). The Social Life of Document. Firstmonday, 1. Available Online

Nardi and O'Day, Ch 4. Available Online

Presentation
Brown, John Seely and Paul Duguid (2000). The Social life of Information. Boston : Harvard Business School Press.

Nardi, Bonnie and Vicki O'Day (1999). Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart. Cambridge, MA.:MIT Press.

Distributed cognition

Giere, Ronald N. (2002) `Scientific Cognition as Distributed Cognition', in Carruthers et al (eds.) Cognitive Bases of Science. pp. 285-299, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available Online

Presentation
Berger, Peter L. and Thomas Luckmann (1966). The Social Construction of Reality. New York, NY.: Anchor.

Presentation
*Hutchins, Edwin (1995). Cognition in the Wild. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press.

Conclusion

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Journal assignment due